Cerebral Palsy Birth Injury Lawsuits: What Compensation Are You Entitled To?

Cerebral Palsy birth injury lawsuits seek to redress healthcare professionals' negligence by compensating victims for their injuries – which can be substantial. Birth injury lawyers generally seek these three types of compensation for their clients in Cerebral Palsy medical malpractice lawsuits.

• Medical Care. Damages start with medical care because while there is no miracle cure for this, this child is likely going to not only require a lot of therapy, but is frequently going to become sick because of his inability to move or the inability of the lungs, at times, to function as well as healthy lungs should. So there's going to be very large future medical expenses – and those damages can be recovered.

While the parents aren't directly compensated, what can happen is that some of the funds that are available can be used to pay for an additional caregiver – especially when you have a child that requires 24 hour a day care. It is an absolute necessity for these parents in order to keep them sane. So, they're not directly entitled to anything, but indirectly they're certainly entitled to additional help from these funds.

• Future Earnings. The second type of damages involves future earnings. Unfortunately, while a child's intellect may not be affected by this, their ability to hold a job in the future is virtually nil. So there's going to be an opportunity to recover for the large wage loss that someone would suffer by not really being able to work for the rest of their lives.

Intellect. The third, and probably the largest form of damages in these situations, involves intellect. One of the most difficult aspects of this is when a child's brain is able to function normally, but their bodies can't function physically. That child is able to tell that they can't do all the things that everyone else can do. So, the internal suffering and emotional distress that undoubtedly goes along with understanding that you're going to be in a wheelchair for the rest of your life; understanding that you're not the same as every other kid; understanding that you're not going to be able to go play a sport, is something that, according to Cerebral Palsy birth injury lawyers, say our constitution entitles one to compensation for – and obviously the damages associated with that will be quite large.